[WhiskeyPapa]

They also received excellent medical care you don't let an investment like that just die off.

"Frustrated in their attempts to change the law, fire-eaters turned their efforts to breaking it. The most famous example of the illicit slave trade in the 1850's was the schooner Wanderer, owned by Charles A. L. Lamar, member of a famous and powerful southern family. Lamar orgnized a syndicate that sent several ships to Africa for slaves. One of these pas the Wanderer, a fast yacht that took on a cargo of five hundred africans in 1858. The four hundred survivors

of the voyage to Georgia earned Lamar a large profit. But federal officials had got wind of the affair and arrested Lamar along with several crew members. Savannah juries acquitted all of them. The grand jurors who had indicted Lamar suffered so much vilification from the local press as dupes of Yankee imitators that they published a bizarre recantation of their action and advocated repeal of the 1807 law prohibiting the slave trade. "Longer to yield to a sickly sentiment of pretended philanthropy and diseased mental aberration of 'higher law' fanatics," said the jurors in reference to opponents of the trade, "is weak and unwise." When northerners criticized the acquittal of Lamar, a southern newspaper denounced Yankee Hypocrisy: "What is the difference between a Yankee violating the fugitive slave law in the North, and a Southern man violating . . . the law 'against the African slave trade in the South?" Lamar repurchased the Wanderer at public auction and went on with his slave-trading ventures until the Civil War, in which he was killed at the head of his regiment."

Battle Cry of Freedom, p 103, by James McPherson

Twenty percent of the Wanderer's cargo died on the way here.

Walt

[AnAmericanMother]

Quite late and quite unusual, and as MacPherson himself notes more of a political action by "fire-eaters" than the ordinary course of business. The vast majority of slaves were imported long before the 1850s, and by New Englanders.

[U S Army EOD]

Once again read before you speak, we are not talking about what happened on the ships we are talking about on the established plantations. Most if not all of the ships were Northern owned or crewed. I would compare the illicit trade slave at that time since it was outlawed in 1807 to bringing illegal immigrants into this country in modern times who also seem to die off at an alarming rate.

When and if you do check your history, check also how many immigrants coming to the New World died on the voyage over, especially the children.

After reading most of your comments on the threads about the Civil War it is quite apparent that you basically only care to try and discredit the South instead of actually discussing history. You are quite consistant in this.